Cynthia Croot curates this presentation from THAW (Theatres Against War) in collaboration with member theatre companies The Drilling Company and The Butane Group, with music by The Gentle Troubadour and The Wandering Minstrel.

Pankaj Mishra, author of "Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond," discusses fictional presentation of
Muslim women with novelists Laila Lalmi and Kamila Shamsie.

"Five Years Out: Psycho-Historical Reflections on 9-11," a talk by
historian and psychoanalyst Charles B. Strozier, author of "Apocalpyse"
and the forthcoming "Trestles of Death." With listener call-ins.

Real People Theater, an ensemble originated at Brooklyn's Bushwick High School, performs Part Two of the radio premiere of Lawrence Fishburne's play, "Riff-Raff." The cast includes Cinthia Candelaria as Mike and 20/20, Albert Young as Torch and Billy, and Modesto "Flaco" Jimenez as Tony T. Director Jim Fletcher plays the Narrator. Executive Producer of "Riff-Raff" is Kate Valk.

–Sunday April 23

A presentation of rarities from legendary radio satirists Firesign Theatre

–Sunday April 16

Poets Hugh Seidman and Harvey Shapiro celebrate the publication of
Shapiro's "The Sights Along the Harbor: New and Collected Poems."

Real People Theater, an ensemble originated at Brooklyn's Bushwick High
School, performs Part One of the radio premiere of Lawrence Fishburne's
play, "Riff-Raff." The cast includes Cinthia Candelaria as Mike and
20/20, Albert Young as Torch and Billy, and Modesto "Flaco" Jimenez as
Tony T. Director Jim Fletcher plays the Narrator. Executive Producer of
"Riff-Raff" is The Wooster Group's Kate Valk.

Baritone saxophonist and jazz composer Fred Ho, founder of the Afro
Asian Music Ensemble, plays and discusses his music in the context of
Afro-Asian unity building and revolutionary cultural production.

Janet Coleman interviews drama critic John Lahr upon the publication of
his new book "Honky-Tonk Parade: New Yorker Profiles of Show People."

–Sunday February 19

Janet Coleman and David Dozer host this fundraising special offering as
premiums Dennis Altman's book "Gore Vidal's America" as well as a DVD exclusive to WBAI featuring Vidal and Altman together at DB Wills'Bookstore in La Jolla, California.

–Sunday February 12

A fundraising hour with Malachy McCourt who offers as a premium one of his signed memoirs "This Is My Him Song."

Elizabeth Nunez hosts a panel of the 2005 PEN Open Book Award winners, including Faith Adiele, author of the memoir "Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun"; Lan Samantha Chang, author of the novel "Inheritance" and the newly appointed Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Lolita Hernandez, auto worker and author of the short story collection "Autopsy of an Engine and Other Stories from the Cadillac Plant"; and Raquel Cepeda, editor of the anthology "And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years."